Department of English - The University of Montana

Professor Emerita

Office: LA 113
Phone: 243.4063
E-mail: goedicke@bresnan.net

Profile:

M.A., Ohio University (1965). Creative Writing: Poetry. Patricia teaches one graduate workshop a year, and is the author of twelve books of poetry, the most recent of which, As Earth Begins to End, (Copper Canyon, 2000), was chosen by the American Library Association as one of its top ten poetry books of the year. Other books include Invisible Horses, Paul Bunyan’s Bearskin, The Tongues We Speak, (a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" selection), The Wind of Our Going, Crossing the Same River, The Dog that was Barking Yesterday, The Trail that Turns on Itself, and Between Oceans. She has received many awards, among them the Chad Walsh Poetry Award for a poem published in the Summer 2002 issue of The Beloit Poetry Journal, the H.G. Merriam Award for distinguished contribution to the state's literature by a Montana author, the Ohioana Poetry Award for a body of work by a poet who has resided in Ohio for at least five years, a Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, various awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, the William Carlos Williams Prize from New Letters, etc. She is also a Distinguished Alumna of Ohio University and a Distinguished Scholar of the University of Montana. Besides the University of Montana, she has taught poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, Ohio University, Hunter College, Kalamazoo College, and The University of Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she lived for many years before returning to the United States. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The London Times Literary Supplement, The Boston Book Review, The Hudson Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, etc. She has given and continues to give many readings and workshops across the country and abroad. She lives in Missoula, Montana, and recent poems of hers may be seen in such journals as The Denver Quarterly, The Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly, Volt, and The Yale Review.